Assam Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the process to unlock the biometrics of those frozen during the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) can begin with the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
Assam CM Urges People Not To Be Guided By Emotion On CAA Issue
“I will discuss the process with All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and other stakeholders and hopefully, a solution will be reached soon after the elections,” the Chief Minister said at a press conference on Friday.
Notably, the biometrics of around 27 lakh people in the state were locked and they were unable to get Aadhaar cards.
CM Sarma said he was 100 per cent convinced that not even a single person will come to Assam through CAA and ‘only those who had applied for NRC will get citizenship’.
He urged people not to be guided by emotion but by sound logic on the CAA issue. “We have already captured the data by the NRC process and those not included in the list would have anyway got citizenship through the Foreigners’ Tribunal, if not the CAA,” the Chief Minister said.
